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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 2

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ...
ISBN: 9780099428848
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Page: 544
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2002
Format: Book
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Language: English

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... 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The Vessel of Wrath', a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate. In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates hischaracteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.

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